Pity Party
Welcome to my pity party. As I sit here typing this article my hands are trembling as a result of Parkinson’s disease. Next week I am going for tests on possible prostate cancer and I’m also on the waiting list for a shoulder operation. On top of this I have been told that my wife and I have to pay a former employee about $30,000 in a personal grievance claim she made against us. My wife and I don’t have that kind of money so my former employee and her solicitors are now looking at selling up our joint family home. We are both now in our 70’s and we are wondering how low they will go.
None of those monetary things really matter to me but what does matter is my credibility
In addition to our former employee taking money from us she has also taken from me the very thing that I treasure the most and that is my credibility.
A Tragedy
It all began over 55 years ago when I accidental shot and killed my young brother. The guilt of the tragedy played on my mind for many years until I eventually had a mental breakdown and nearly took my own life. My mental illness was diagnosed at the time as bipolar disorder caused by the after effects of the rifle accident.
Dismal
I was finally forced to dismiss our employee on the grounds of alleged dishonesty, use of foul language, violent behaviour in the work place and slander. In the last few days that our employee was with us she would tell me each day that people around town were telling her that I had was suffering from a mental illness. I knew that I could not let her continue slandering my name around town so I dismissed her. After I dismissed her she continued tell people that I had a mental health illness known as bipolar disorder. It was part of her evidence that she used at the employment relations hearing and in the employment court hearing. The end result was that my mental state of health became public knowledge through the newspapers and defamed my character.
I publish books for charity and since the announcement of my mental illness being reported in the newspapers people are showing a reluctance to do business with me. The courts and the news media are exempt from the Privacy Act so I have no way of protecting my privacy from people who choose to use it for their own personal gain
Help line
The personal state of your mental health belongs to you and other peron should be permited to use it for their own personal gain
If you are a person that has had your mental state of health used as evidence against you in a court of law then please reply on this blog
None of the things you mention have anything to do with the way you acted in dismissing your employee. I’ve read the judgment, and you were totally in the wrong. How many times do you have to hear it before you accept that you acted very unfairly towards your employee? The law is there to protect bosses misusing their power and it punished you for doing just that. All you do is look at how things affect you, you have no objectivity. The court judgment barely mentions your mental illness – you lost on the merits of the case. You should do the honourable thing and pay that poor woman the money you owe her.
It seems that Philip Fry has a personal interest in this case. I have not finished yet and if I can find the right lawyer some heads are going to role
You will be able to read all about it in my book about the one sided law
Ron,
After reading more than five or your articles, I am confident that you have lost the plot. Just do what has been ordered of you and get on with what could be a few more enjoyable years.
Think about it.
Kane Zooltrap
Thanks for your advice but no thanks. I’m not a quitter I will fight to the end and the end is a long way away yet. Keep reading my blogs
you might learn something